In this month's IEEE Spectrum magazine (a geek trade publication for electrical engineers) there is an article about a sports car called the VENTURI FÉTISH. The car has a 241-horsepower, all-electric motor and will do 0-60 in about 4.5 seconds. Top speed -- only 105 mph.

Here is the article:

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY...5/0305car.html

Here is a picture:



At the end of the article they state the following:

I thought the xB was going to be discontinued. Has anyone else heard of an electric Scion in the works?

By the way, this is a pretty reputable magazine and they usually get their facts right.

And for anyone interested in buying the venturi...it costs about $700,000!!!

 

700k??? no thanks

 

t2B is coming out...maybe thats whats going to be in it

 

It says conversions not productions. This tells me that Venturi will make the conversion not Toyota. Kinda like Saleen Mustangs

 

That makes sense. Thanks.

 

What a beautiful piece of machinery. 700K, thats pocket change

 

Yeah, I'll take two.

 

all electric would be hot... but I wonder what the range on those conversions would be...

not just that ... where would we go to get recharges... I definately haven't seen anything resembling electric car support in NY

 

0-60 in 4.5 seconds / top speed 105mph??

So you would hit top speed in what, 7 seconds?

-THE DON

 

all electric?

wonder how much the electric bill would be?